Cohen opts to stay put in quest for honours

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THE new year has been good to Northampton in a way that declining 2004 was not. They are, arguably, England’s best hope of a representative in the last eight of the Heineken Cup and they have now secured the services of Ben Cohen, the England wing, for a further three years.

Considering that Cohen was reviewing his options a few short weeks ago, when Alan Solomons was coaching Northampton, it is a happy turnaround for the club. Nor was he alone. It had become apparent that Solomons’s review of the playing staff threatened the future of more than just Cohen